Failure

Failure The new book from the acclaimed author of Guilty Whatever and The Lodger Failure collects Karl Stevens beautifully rendered humorous comic strips from the Phoenix Boston s leading alternative week

Title: Failure

Author: Karl Stevens

ISBN: 9781934460023

Page: 480

Format: Paperback

The new book from the acclaimed author of Guilty, Whatever, and The Lodger, Failure collects Karl Stevens beautifully rendered humorous comic strips from the Phoenix, Boston s leading alternative weekly His slice of life vignettes and surreal anthropomorphic experiments are revealing sketches of urban America and beyond.

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Another fun and astute collection of strips of Stevens's that had originally appeared in the Boston Phoenix. Check out my interview with Karl for The Comics Alternative, comicsalternative/comics-a, where we discuss this book.

Realism gets a bum rap in some circles of both fine art and cartooning because trying to represent the visual world accurately through drawing is, by definition, doomed to failure. That, though, was exactly the quixotic gesture at the core of Karl Stevens’s weekly comic strip, which ran for seven years in the Boston Phoenix under several names. Its final two years are now collected in this very odd, thoroughly charming volume. “Failure” is about failures that look like successes, or vice v [...]